I smoked from the time I was 15, until I was 33. I got a prescription for something called Chantix that worked really well for me to quit permanently.
It worked well for a few people I knew, but one guy said it made him really depressed / suicidal.
Chantix isn’t available anymore because of something that was in it that might cause cancer, but there’s a generic form of it called varenicline that may or may not be available in your country. Ask your doctor maybe if there’s a pill that will help you quit.
This reads like a Pharma advert.
Yeah, this worked well for me, too. The generic one you mention also had less side effects for me. There’s still the vivid dreams / nightmares, but less intense.
From Chantix /Champix I recollect the spider dreams and floor crumbling beneath me.
But hey, anything to quit smoking.
I dunno, teenagers all smoke and they seem pretty on the ball.
I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they’re the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don’t know what it’s like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again. (Marc Maron)
But seriously, the one thing I’m proud of in my life is that I was able to quit smoking. Hard, but so worth it!
Same.
But whooooo damn do I occasionally miss having a smoke.
I’ve not smoked for more years than I smoked at this point, but the habit is in me. My brain only remembers the good parts.
Yup, this is me with both alcohol and cigarettes. And it seems like the worse things are going for me, the better going back to it sounds.
Still I’m so glad I don’t have to worry about keeping dosed anymore.
I love drinking until I’ve had a drink, and then I do that again every single day. I don’t drink a lot but it’s still aggravating.
My mother quit smoking 25 years ago and still has panic attacks about it every few weeks.
That pisses her off so she won’t ever smoke again.
Well done my dude
Thanks! ☺️
I quit by vaping off of cigarettes, and then gradually reducing the nicotine in vape juice until I was vaping 0 nicotine for a couple of months, then stopped altogether. Been nicotine free for several years now, and no cravings.
This is how I finally quit for good.
Meanwhile idiots like me ended up vaping all day long and when I went back to cigarettes my tolerance was through the roof and I smoked more than I ever did.
Gotta taper the nicotine down, even if you vape like a chimney out of habit, that way when you do try a cigarette again the nicotine is overpowering and gross
True! I was out of my element last year and ran out of juice due to poor planning. Resorted to sharing a smoke and felt like garbage for the next two days.
I do still miss the smell, though. Probably just nostalgia from feeling like a Cool Guy for the first time in my life choking down a Camel unfiltered behind the 7-11.
There’s still hope. I still chain vape, but the amount of nicotine I use is but a whisper. It’s entirely a routine at this point. I’m figuring out positive actions I can do whenever I feel the need to suck on my robot dick.
Asexual non smoker here. I have bad news for you:
The urge of sucking robot dick is truly universal and inevitable.
I’m hoping we make First Contact soon so I can make a healthy transition from Robot Dick to Alien Dick.
Sorry, that’s insensitive.
Xenophallus.
Nearly all of my family smokes, and I fucking hate it. There were countless times, as far as I can remember, when I tried to do something with my dad, it was nice for a while, then he goes for a ‘quick smoke’ and stays there forever.
I can put my life in danger. I can put your life in danger. But I draw the line when you put my life in danger.
I’ve smoked 3 packs a day by 25 y/o. Started with 17. stopped with 27. I don’t regret stopping, I feel better. But I miss it.
I only got to a pack a day before I quit for vaping, and I’ve been titrating down of that and hope to be off it entirely soon.
I do miss the tingle you get from that first smoke of the day. But it’s not worth not being able to smell anything and spending so much money.
I roll my own. Cheap as hell, but I wish I could stop. I’d lose my goddamn mind if I did.
I tried that but I ruined so many clothes because it ashed on me I went back to pre rolls
3 whole fucking packs a DAY? Did you even breathe normal air?
I had the luxury to smoke on my job. I smoked a lot.
I can relate.
I never got as bad as my father, who used a lighter once a day and lit the rest of them off of the last one.
I smoke about a half a pack a day and feel like a dick for it. I’d like to quit, but i don’t want to.
Holy shit lmao your dad was trying to be the CEO of smoking
quit 30 years now. quit because it was killing me. other corps are still trying.
This would work better than cancer warnings on cigarette packs.
I live with two roommates in a flat. One of them smokes. Of course, he has to smoke indoors as well, as if the whole place is his (we got two balconies btw) . Can’t describe when I get home after a long day in uni to come back to a flat that smells like a smoking friendly bar.
yeah that’s a dick move. I’m a smoker but i only smoke tobacco outdoors. i like being in a space i can smoke indoors, but it’s not gonna be my place
I feel like this should’ve been discussed before moving in together. Still not too late to talk though - if he’s even a little bit considerate, he’ll agree to only smoke outside.
So start smoking and you won’t even notice.
Seriously though, as a lifelong smoker I do my best to keep it from being anyone else’s problem.
I agree. There is a difference between being a smoker and being an inconsiderate dick.
I won’t lie though, judging from how much of the litter where I live is cigarettes butts and packs, there seems to be a rather large overlap.
Add people who drink Tim Horton’s coffee and that’s a solid 80% of the litter I see.
(Am smoker, will carry smelly butts rather than throw them on the street)
Tobacco is one of the worst drugs ever. The best part is staving off the effects of addiction.
Why smoke when you can be addicted to the superiority complex that apparently comes with not smoking?
It’s not a complex if it’s true.
I would like to submit exhibit A in to evidence your honor
I can’t hear you over my 100% lung capacity. I am breathing so good right now. You wouldn’t even believe.
If your lungs are making that much noise you might have a medical condition that you should go get checked out, lungs aren’t supposed to be that noisy.
It was clearly a figure of speech
Reading comprehension is one of the first things to go with acute lack of oxygen
Should check that out with doctor, just saying
Take a deep breath, it was just a joke.
You sound like you need a cigarette.
Talking about taking deep breaths…
This guy BREATHS
Yeah that shit annoys the fuck out of me. Society really needs to change the way we treat people who smoke.
Many people wouldn’t mind other people smoking, as long as it doesn’t impact non-smokers. But the thing is, smokers aren’t really all that considerate about non-smokers. I attended a couple festivals over the past week. It’s really annoying when you stand in packed crowd as a non-smoker and someone starts smoking. Sure, we are outside, but it literally makes breathing harder, especially for asthma patients.
I don’t really see a way in which smokers and non-smokers can coexists without the smoker impacting the non-smoker. Even if you only smoke outside of the restaurant/bar, it will still be annoying and unhealthy to people entering the restaurant or bar.
I’m very curious with how things will develop in France, where they banned smoking in area’s where children are present, which is virtually everywhere.
They did… and it caused most people to stop smoking. Building that social stigma was like one of the best health marketing campaigns in history.
I say this as someone who used to and still does smoke time to time.
Many people that smoke are already mentally unbalanced. Making them a shamed pariah is doing little for their mental health, it is just forcing them to hide yet another bit of their unhappiness.
Not smoking is healthier, no doubt, but the majority of people that still do it undoubtedly have enough shame going on. Self hate comes into play, as well.
I smoke. Shame and self hatred is exactly right.
Gives you more lung space to inhale your own farts!
Even our farts smell better when you don’t smoke.
You’re both being pretty shitty guests, please just leave my daughter’s birthday party.
You’re going to have to call the police, buddy.
The amount of lives that social shift has saved is truly staggering. Nonetheless, it would have been nice if the attitude shift had been more “we care about you and want you to stop killing yourself” and less “eww smokers.”
I completely agree, ads like this that say " it’s bad for you", “you’ll hurt the ones you love”, “your family will miss you”, it’s all just anti-suicide pepole thinking they’re soo much better than everyone else
blowing ones brains out shouldn’t be portrayed as a bad thing, we need change and show we respect and accept suicide!
Also as a child of a heavy smoker, fuuuuuuck people who smoke around others, i don’t care if you want to harm yourself, but stay the fuck away from other people while you do it
Dude you’re projecting your daddy issues onto other people and being incredibly up front about it.
Didn’t say it was my father, are you projecting your daddy issues perhaps?
Turns out we all were low resolution projectors
Surprise I guess
they said, while rolling E and smoking weed and drinking borgs :D
Drinking borgs?
Isn’t that what they call them? I’m not 20 anymore so I’m not as hip.
Pffft these kids would die if they drank rocket fuel aka pour all the hard liquor you have into one horrific drink and skull it down.
this is probably a place that associates “borg” with the “resistance is futile” quote more than anything else
I’ve read last week that tobacco is radium rich and decomposes to polonium and radon - cigarettes are radioactive and it contributes to its nasty effects on the lungs
Bonus!!
So, smoking could make me a superhero?
Yes, like Marlboro Man!
I’m so happy that I’m on 10 years without cigarettes.
Ive seen people quit oxy easier then cigarettes
